Building automation visions

University of Oslo

Sten Solli, University Center for Information Technology

University of Oslo Environmental and climate change strategy
for UiO’s estate operations 2018 -> 2020 -> 2040

https://www.uio.no/english/about/strategy/environment/

UiO has a building mass of 472,000 m2 and rents 115,000 m2

Life Science Building will be ~10% of UiO building mass

We wish to use the the Life Science project to lift building automation at UiO as a whole

Estate Department strategy

Goal:

The technology shall help to collect and utilize data across central systems, manage buildings, facilitate analysis, simplify processes and be cost-effective.

Technology

Measures:

Technological solutions should be open, modular, facilitate data exchange and support UiO's integration architecture.
EA should not be bound by existing systems when selecting new ones.
All vendors must provide systems and data formats that integrate (API) with UiO's central systems.

Estate Department strategy

Goal:

The data collected should be of the right quality and form the basis for quality analyzes so that we can remotely control the buildings, introduce proactive maintenance, reduce energy consumption and maintain the agreed level of operation of the buildings in a cost-effective way.

Data

Measures:

UiO shall own its own data and not accept solutions that involve transferring ownership to anyone outside UiO.
UiO will standardize data formats so that they can be used across systems.
UiO will define master data and metadata for projects and retrieve and use such data itself.

Our wish list for Life Science

Thinking IoT throughout
Absolutely all data points accessible
API
IP preferred over buses
Integration and data sharing with other systems
User and lab equipment centrally managed

An important focus is that everything shall have an API!

Reachable directly through IP

All functions and data available

Then we shall be flexible to develop future solution's

Network / Communication

What are the possibilities?

If we want "everything" to be accessible from any chosen system we cannot hide them away on older bus technology

User Equipment

Typically, but not limited to, advanced lab equipment.
For new equipment bought for Life Science project but also, very importantly, for excising equipment that will be moved into the building.
Integrated in BMS system.
Flexible solutions making it easy to move equipment and integrate new equipment.